My daughter’s 21 but I still hire a Santa to visit her & make her do a Christmas list – she’s mortified but I won’t stop
A CHRISTMAS-daft mum has revealed she still hires a Santa to visit her daughter at home – even though she’s 21.
Mariea Mohan, 38, refuses to give up festive traditions with red-faced Tailor to keep the December magic alive.
The Ayrshire mum-of-one went viral last weekend after filling her 21-year-old’s entire room with wrapping paper in an epic Elf on the Shelf prank.
Mariea spent three hours and 30 minutes single handling wrapping every single item in her room – from her double bed right down to her brush and shoes.
But it’s not the only time she’s racked up views on social media for her naughty list antics.
The hilarious mum has told the Scottish Sun that she still treats her daughter like Santa is real – despite Tailor’s pleas to stop.
And when her girl, training to be a teacher, refused to write Santa a letter, she got the perfect revenge.
Mariea told the Scottish Sun: “I do this kind of thing all the time.
“She’s 21 now and every year I always get Santa to come around to the house and since she turned 16 she’s been begging me to stop.
“I always do it on December 1st and this year I deliberately waited until after that so she thought I wasn’t doing it.
“But I waited until she was having her boyfriend over for dinner and as soon as we sat down the door goes and this grown man comes in shouting ‘Merry Christmas Tailor, – you haven’t written your Christmas list!’
“She was mortified. Everything is always extreme with me.
“Her boyfriend is 24 and they’re such a nice couple, he’s dead quiet and they keep themselves to themselves.”
After her previous prank with the wrapped-up bedroom went viral, Mariea told how she built up to it with videos of other pranks she pulled on Tailor.
She added: “I think I set it up quite well and people knew what to expect – the week before I did a live when I got a sharpie and drew ears and whiskers on Tailor’s face while she was sleeping.
“She’s so serious and she’s studying to be a teacher and she wasn’t happy because she couldn’t get it off and that video got a lot of attention.
“I also froze her house key and turned the water off and hid the kettle when I was at work so the only way for her to get her key was to take the whole block of ice away with her.
“But I kept telling her, ‘at least if you’re thirsty you can have a drink!’
“She stomped all the way out – everyone keeps saying that one day she’s going to get me back big time but she doesn’t even have it in her.”
The hilarious mum also revealed how she has one more prank up her sleeve before Christmas – by hiring a ‘naughty elf’ to visit Tailor at her work in Costa in Troon.
Mariea said: “I have one more prank lined up – just waiting on confirmation for a date.
“A naughty elf, who is a 6-and-a-half foot guy, is booked to go into her work to come up to her and say ‘Tailor, you never wrote a Christmas list!’
“I’m going away to Australia over Christmas so it will just be her with her boyfriend when it happens.
“I’m going to try and get someone to film her reaction!”
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